What words are you hoping to hear?
What do you need to be told?
What are you longing to be whispered in your ear?
If you finally got the words you were longing for,
Would they transform you?
Would they give life and hope?
Are the words,
“I’m sorry?”
Are those words,
“I was wrong?”
Maybe the words are,
“You’re seen?”
Or is that too vulnerable?
Are you longing to hear,
“You’re loved.”
Martha longed for Jesus to have said something.
She even told Jesus,
“If you’d been here, he wouldn’t have died.”
Did she hope her accusation would cause him to speak?
Maybe Martha, like us, wanted to hear:
“You’re right.”
“I’m sorry.”
“I didn’t know.”
But Jesus didn’t say what Martha wanted to hear.
Jesus instead gives Martha words she needs to hear.
Words that can heal her pain if she lets it.
“Martha, I am the resurrection and the life.”
“Martha, do you believe me?”
What if the words we want to hear won’t heal our hearts?
And what if the words Jesus gives bring life:
“My child, do you believe me?”
If you’ve struggled with asking hard questions from God, maybe check out my debut novel: Secrets of the Wildflowers. The main character wrestles hard with God’s goodness in a world that’s chaotic.
Happy reading!
